Window shade or curtain holder



May 20, 1941.

E. E, SCOTT WINDOW SHADE OR CURTAIN HOLDER Filed Aug. 1, 1940 Patented May 20, 1941 UITED 4 Claims.

This invention relates to a window shade or curtain holder, and it is an object of the invention to provide a device of this kind which can be readily applied to any ordinary window and effectively maintained in place without the use of nails, screws, or any other devices that would make holes in or mar the window frame.

The invention consists in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts of my improved window shade or curtain holder whereby certain important advantages are attained and the device rendered simpler, less expensive and otherwise more convenient and advantageous for use, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The novel features of my invention will hereinafter be definitely claimed.

In order that my invention may be the better understood, I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a View in elevation of a holder constructed in accordance with an embodiment of my invention and in applied position, the associated window frame being fragmentarily indicated by broken lines;

Figure 2 is a view in top plan of the device as illustrated in Figure l with portions broken away;

Figure 3 is an enlarged fragmentary view in perspective of one end portion of the device as herein embodied.

As disclosed in the accompanying drawing, my improved holder comprises two rods l of desired length and which are pivotally connected, as at 2. This pivotal connection 2 is such that the pivot of the connection may slightly pass center to provide a self-locking means for maintaining the holder in applied position as will hereinafter be more clearly understood.

Slidably mounted upon the outer portions of each of the rods l are the tubular rods 3 of desired length and suitably anchored, as at 4, to the outer end of each of these tubular rods 3 is an elongated shoe 5 of yielding or compressible material, preferably rubber.

Bearing against the inner end of each of the tubular rods 3 is an expansible spring encircling a rod l and having an end portion thereof selectively insertable through one of the longitudinally spaced openings 1 provided in the intermediate portion of the rod I. By th provision of these openings 1 the spring 6 may be readily shifted in accordance with the desired initial adjustment of a tubular rod 3.

The expansible members or springs 6 serve to constantly urge the rods 3 outwardly so that the shoe 5 will be maintained in effective contact with the opposed surfaces of the window frame, as indicated in Figure 1, whereby the device in its entirety will be maintained in desired working position without the use of nails, screws, or any other mechanical devices that would in any way mar or make holes in the frame. The device can be readily placed in position by folding the rods I and as is illustrated in Figure 1, after the device has been placed in applied position and the rods I are substantially straightened out, the pivot 2 passes upwardly slightly beyond the longitudinal center of the device and thus provides an automatic means for locking the holder in working position.

Each of the rods 3 closely adjacent to its outer end has fixed thereto, as at 8, the lower arm 9 of a bracket B. This arm 9 is of desired length and at its outer end is provided with the upstanding arm H! at right angles thereto. This arm I0 is also of desired length and has its upper end portion l I, in the present embodiment of the invention, quarter turned. This upper portion I l of th arm I0 is provided with an upwardly facing slot l2 in which is received the intermediate portion of an elongated arm I4. This arm M has its inner extremity securely fixed, as at 15, to the upper end portion of the arm I6 comprised in the sliding bracket S. This arm I6 is carried by the outer end of a lower arm 11. This arm I! is formed to provide a split collar l8 surrounding the adjacent rod 3. This split collar l8 may be readily clamped upon the rod 3 by the conventional bolt l9 and coasting wing nut 20. Upon tightening the nut 20 the collar 18 will be firmly clamped to the rod 3 and, of course, when it is desired to shift the bracket 8 it is only necessary that the nut 20 be manipulated to loosen the collar [8. The arm l4 readily slides through the slot l2 yet at the same time the bracket B provides means for effectively supporting the outer portion of said arm l4.

The outer extremity of each of the arms i4 is adapted to have detachably secured thereto, as at M, a shade roller bracket 22 although, if preferred, a device for sup-porting a curtain pole may be substituted for the bracket 22.

It is also to be explained that the arms 9 and H are coextensive in length and also of such length as to assure the arms I0, [6 and I4 being entirely free of contact with the outer facing of the window frame.

From the foregoing description it is thought to be obvious that a window shade or curtain holder constructed in accordance with my invention is particularly well adapted for use :by reason of the convenience and facility with which it may be assembled and operated, and it will also be obvious that my invention is susceptible of some change and modification without departing from the principles and spirit thereof and for this reason I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise arrangement and formation of the several parts herein shown in carrying out my invention in practice except as hereinafter claimed.

I claim:

1. A holder of the class described comprising two rods, means for pivotally connecting the rods, additional rods slidably associated with the outer portions of the first rods, yieldable means for urging said second rods outwardly, shoes carried by the outer extremities of the second rods, and means carried by the second rods for supporting a shade roller or curtain pole.

2. A holder of the class described comprising two rods, means for pivotally connecting the rods, additional rods slidably associated with the outer portions of the first rods, springs carried by the first named rods for ooaction with the second named rods for urging said rods outwardv ly, and means for holding said springs at selected positions along the first rods.

3. A holder of the class described including two rods having lengthwise movement one with respect to the other, means for urging one 01 said rods outwardly with respect to the other, a shoe carried by the outer end of said rod, an outstanding bracket fixed to said rod adjacent to its outer end, a second bracket slidably mounted upon said rod inwardly of the fixed bracket, an elongated arm having one end portion secured to the second bracket and slidably engaged with the first bracket, and supporting means carried by the outer portion of the arm.

4. A holder of the class described including two rods having lengthwise movement one with respect to the other, means for urging one of said rods outwardly with respect to the other, a shoe carried by the outer end of said rod, an outstanding bracket fixed to said rod adjacent to its outer end, a second bracket slidably mounted upon said rod inwardly of the fixed bracket, an elongated arm having one end portion secured to the second bracket and slidably engaged with the first bracket, supporting means carried by the outer portion of the arm, and means for holding the second bracket against movement along the rod.

EDWARD E. SCOTT. 

